Tiger337

Quickest tug of war ever: 1976 Big Red Machine versus the Steel Curtain

Remember the Superstars competition back in the 1970s? Kyle Rote Jr dominated and the baseball players usually embarrassed themselves. That tells me everything I need to know.

2 million (or any big number you choose) would be "reasonable", but reasonable has nothing to do with it. There is a ton of money flowing into the game. Somebody has to get that money, so I think it's good that the players (who are the employees fans are paying to see) are getting a large share. The only way to make it "reasonable" is for fans to stop going to games and purchasing tv packages.

which means it was almost cetainly not random. I wonder if putting Brinkman clean-up was really directed towards Cash? I vaguely remember being a bit disappointed that the line-up had not changed that much. I was only 9, so I didn't understand random samples, but when I heard he picked the line-up out of a had, I was expecting something more bizzare.

Silvestri will fit in well with the rest of team. He's got the look.

One problem with them is that they both sounded alike. I couldn't tell which one was talking. So, I imagine they would do better separately.

It's hard to believe that was over 50 years ago. https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/DET/DET197208131.shtml

Youth hockey was crazy even when I was a kid. My best friend played in a league and it used consume is life during the winter. It didn't seem like fun. I imagine is was pretty expensive too.

I'm nicer than Edman though.

The assumption is that the draft would only involve unprotected players on the 40-man roster which doesn't include any of their biggest prospects

Pick up games are no longer popular, but organized baseball is still pretty popular. I believe basketball and soccer are the top youth sports with baseball #3.

I would guess it's because there are limited areas in the United States where it is played very much by kids growing up.

They could draft him and then trade him.

I wish they had one of these every year - not an expansion draft, but more like a high level rule 5 draft. There would probably be some legal or contractual reasons why it wouldn't be liked by certain parties, but it would make the off-season so much fun.

He would have wanted to. I just don't know if it would have been his call.